174 Gwlgn — Notes on Some Beaufort, N. C. , Fishes. 



Leptecheneis naucrates (Linnaeus). 



SHARK'S PILOT; REMORA. 



Early in August, 1900, Coles brought in from Cape Lookout a Lepte- 

 cheneis naucrates of large size. After being in weak formalin for a year, 

 it measured 32 inches long over all. The sucker, which was 6% inches 

 long and 2% inches wide (outside measurements), had 22 valves. During 

 the summer of 1010 Coles captured another fish of about the same size at 

 the Cape. 1 le says that specimens of this size are by no means rare there. 

 This is undoubtedly due to the large number of great sharks, huge rays 

 and giant turtles, their hosts. 



( )n July 13, l!ll(), a 14-inch specimen of this fish was taken oft* the 

 laboratory wharf with hook and line. This is the first instance known 

 to the writer of this fish being caught in this manner, though Smith in 

 his Fishes of North Carolina says that such captures are sometimes made 

 and Coles affirms that they bite vigorously at the hook and give good 

 sport. This specimen had IS laminae in its sucker. Smith ( 1007) says 

 the number varies from 20 to 28 for this fish and that Beaufort specimens 

 generally have 23 laminae. 



The writer took on a shark hook off the laboratory wharf at Beaufort 

 in the summer of 1902, a 6-foot sharp-nosed shark (species undetermined ) 

 which bail attached to it a remora 12 or 15 inches long. This sucker-tish 

 was greatly disturbed as the shark was drawn up on the wharf. Whenever 

 that part of its friend's body to which it was attached was drawn up out 

 of the water, it would drop down into the water, dash wildly about, and 

 then reattach itself lower down to again go through the same performance. 

 An attempt was made to catch it with a dip net but it was too agile to 

 permit this. When the shark was finally drawn up on the wharf, the 

 remora disappeared into the deeper water. 



Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus. 

 GOOSE-FISH; ANGLER. 



During the winter of 1000 a fisherman found and brought to the 

 laboratory a large Lophius piscatorius which had drifted on one of the 

 marshes. Director Aller, not having any receptacle large enough to hold it, 

 preserved only the head. Measured in a straight line from the tip of the 

 lower jaw to a line joining the anterior edges of the bases of the pectorals, 

 its length was 14)^ inches, and its greatest width was 18 inches. The gape 

 of the mouth from right to left was 12)^ inches; the vertical gape, because 

 of the bad condition of the head, could not be determined with any 

 accuracy. The width (inside) between the eyes was A% inches. Both 

 jaws were studded with sharp thorn-like teeth, the longest measuring % 

 of an inch as it. stood fixed in the jaw. The two spines on the head had 

 lost their covering of flesh and skin. The shorter was 3% inches, the 

 longer 5% inches in length. The fore and aft measurement of the 

 pectoral was {)% inches, and its length from the body out was 6% inches. 

 The goose-fish, locally called "all-mouth toad," is rarely found in Beau- 

 fort harbor, more frequently coming ashore at Cape Lookout. 



